Video: As the Winter Games get ready to kick off in Sochi later this week, Team USA has landed and the practice runs are well underway in the race for gold. Live from Sochi, women’s bobsled team member Elana Meyers tells Matt Lauer that being there “exceeded our expectations.”

“He was laughing his can off,” Gwen told them during Trending. “It was super cool.”

Video: Gwen, the 36-year-old woman who quit her job as a machine engineer in GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercial, speaks out about her choice to resign her job in such a public fashion, saying her boss texted her after it aired and said “great commercial!”

Video: USA Today ranked the game’s top commercials, and the Budweiser “Puppy Love” ad took the number one spot. Laura Petrecca, the newspaper’s business reporter, tells TODAY that the ad offered “great American imagery.” Matt Miller, president of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, liked the Doritos ad’s “slapstick humor.”

4. “Tiger Mom” Amy Chua is out with another book — this time with husband Jed Rubenfeld — which argues that certain groups do much better than others in America.

In response to critics who say it perpetuates stereotypes, Rubenfeld argued to Savannah, “Any time you talk about groups in America, there's going to be sensitivity, but our book is the polar opposite of racist.”

Video: Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld, authors of the controversial new book “The Triple Package,” join TODAY to answer their critics and lay out their theories on race, culture and success. “I thought it would be thought-provoking, not so controversial,” Chua says.